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The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-05-14
Our State Capital Correspondence.
Special to the CARBON ADVOCATE.

Special to the CARBON ADVOCATE.
MAY II, 1887.
Legislation is rapidly waning; week. OF
at most, ten days will witness the final ad.
journment,and assemblymen and senators
will meander homeward well pleased that
there work is done. Many bills will be,
and are, kept back until the last few hours
in order that they may be rushed through
without the usual bother of prolonged
debate. This session of the legislature
has been much of hypodrome in many
respects, and then again much good work
has been done in both houses But as
said In previous letters, there are too many
bills presented TO do justics to all, and as
long as the number is not limited, there
will always be the usual number of fanatics
and cranks who will worry the life out of
conservative and intelligent assemblymer
10y the presentation of bills not In accord
with the State constitution, and 80 simple
and foolish in their construction as to be
perfectly ludicrous. But in. this regard the
people are to blame fet sending such an ig-
How long will this continue you may ask
just so long as susceptible people will allow
themselves to be deliberately imposed upon
by set of men who are too lazy to work,
and who for a few moments, catch public
enthusiasm In popular thought and are,
as result, elevated to aposltion Of vast
Importance and credit When the people
get down toAOlid thought aud, actidN, fan
atics viii have to take back seat and in
telligence will forge to the front Undoubt
edly the majority Of the ADVOCATE readers
will coincide with me in regard to this mat
ter, but when is the day Of liberation to
Gomez fl-, 1s
The appropriation TO the Soldiers Or
phans' School passed the House last week,
with but a single vote against 1t, that of Mr..
Robinson, of Delaware. In explanation of
it, he said: ~ could not vote TO sustain
these schools, nor do see how others could,
when their Investigation has been halted. /"
''To influences brought to bear to cork
up the investigation of these schools has
been the greatest ever exerted for pur-
pose" said another prominent legislator
and ex-soldler during the consideration Of
the subject. ''If persons and papers could
De sent for and the schools exposed in their
true light, as they were conducted few
months ago, It would put more shame on
the Commonwealth than all the glory OF
Gettysburg could efface. Thieves high in
power and close to the throne stole the
money due 10 the children and stinted and
starved them that they might get rich"
The appropriations and nearly every
bOdy's little bill went through last week.
slO0, 900 10 the Normal Schools. es0. 600 TO
the HAhnsmAnn PhilAdslphIA College; g..
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Bank street, from one end to the other,
abounds with inumerable small bitches, we
need not tell you this, however; II has been
so every spring and summer for the past
ten, probably twenty years; the only way
to prevent this Is to macadaInize the street.
The taxpayers of Lehighton would like
the borough fathers to consider carefully
at their next meeting the practicability Of
adopting a more economical business prln-
ciple in conducting the affairs of the town
than has characterized that body in the
past. They can do this by inacadamlzing
the street.
OF course 1t would not he advisable to
rush into this'buslness and do the work all
in one Summer. Take the average sum
expended annually OH the streets during
the-psst few years and apply it to the ma
cadamizatlon of one or two hundred yards,
do this yearly, and ere many summers
pass TANK street Will be properly graded
and in good order, as it is now II is an eye
sore to the public and cancer to the tax
payers.
Start in and nscadamize Bank street.
II will be econemy.
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200 to Colonel R. II. Thomas, to reimburse
him for expenses as Commissioner TO New
Orleans two years ago; $4,000 to Norris
town Asylum; $4,000 to the School of In
dustrial Art; $4,000 to the Medico- Chirttg-
ical Hospital, and 100000 to the University
Of Pennsylvania for the Huidekeper Veter-
mary School-one-half the amount asked
for In the bill. So moves the world away
and also the States money. The appro-
priation of $50, 200 for the Huidekeper Vet
Urinary school win undoubtedly meet with
the hearty approval of farmers and others
who raise stock of any kind. Tire many
serious epidomics which sweep over the
country every year, killing off cattle, horses
and swine in great numbers, was the means
Of bringing out the appropriation.
PAXTON.
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&C. Acres and III PerGaeg,
STRICT MEASURE.


No. So al that certain tract or piece of land
situate In EasG Peen Township. Carbon county
Pa, bounded aud described as follows 10 wit
Designated as No 90 among a number Of tracts
bounded by No. u and landsOf George Andreas
containing ACRES and ~ PERCHES, stric
measure. sa edo
No. 52.-All that certain tract or piece oflanS
situated In East Penn Township, Carbon county
Pa, bounded by lands of Solomon Freely, Geo
Ballet, Aaron Ballet and John Ballet contain
ing 50 ACRES and PERCHES.
No. 65.-An that certain tract or piece OF land
situated In the Township Of IGwer Towamenslng
Carbon eonnty, Pa, bounded and described as
follows, to-Wlt: Beginning at a stone corner on
lands late of David Meimbaeh, thence by the
rock apd heap OF stones on Il. thence partly bS
the latter and lands OF David Snyder north lSl,
degrees west 80 perches 10 a stone, thence hy
lands OF Henry Blose south 70 degrees, west 81
3-iv perches TO a stone, thence south 20 degrees.
east ll6 nerehes 10 the place OF beginning, con,
tanning "a ACRES and 43 PERCHES.
No. 56.-An that certain tract or piece OF land
situated IN the Township Of Lower TOwamen-
slug, Carbon county, Pa, bounded and Described
rs follows. to-Miti Beginning at a stone thence
0y other lands OF john Ballet north 25 degrees,
west llS pefehes 20 stone, thence by lands OF
Henry Blose south IS degrees, west 26S perches
70 stone, thence south 6SN degrees west I6iI
perches 70 stone, thence BY lands OF Thomas
iss, baehman, deceased. south 81 degrees, east i27
Nicholas Kiihe north ~ ilsgrees, east q perches
tS ne Place ,S q beginning. containing ACRES
Being the Real Estate Of JOHN BAIIIFr.
peceased Conditions win be made known on
VICTOR BOWMAN. 1
LEwiSF y. bxILfkf; Administrators.
Nay iSth. lsS7.sw,
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EVERY growing and ambitious town Is
composed of three elements: Those who
work patriOtically, vigorously and intelli-
gently for It's advancement; those who are
in state Of apathy or Indifference, and
those who take curious delight in dis
cOuraging the efforts Of others by ridIcHle,
by a persistent denial that any progress
can or has been accomplished aud by boast
ing Of every other town beside their own.
The last class are called eroakers, bat they
are really something worse. for their OPP
position does not arise simply from des-
Pondency, but from that unenviable spirit
which will neither act Itself nsF suffer 9th
sEs " Ast.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-05-14

The mugwump is factor in the politics
of America which will eventually wipe out
political ringsters and party manipulators,
and put politics on an elevated plane from
which all men can look with pride to the
glorious institution of American freedom.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-05-14

WE would call the attention of our bust
ness men to the practicability of occupying
space under the head of "Lehighton
Business Directory" which appears with a
fair representation of the business interests
of the town, in another column of to-day
CARBON ADVOCATE. The ADVOCATE
goes into over one thousand homes every
week and Is read by more people than any
other county paper, This fact should be
borne in mind by advertisers.
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IN another column olto-day's ADVOCATE
We publish letter from W. F. Brodhead,
Of Packerton, prominent Carbon county
Democrat, in which he says that circum-
stances over which he has no control will
prevent him being a candidate for the
county treasurership. The many friends
OF Mr.. Brodhead, will undoubtedly be sorry
TO learn of the gehtlemans conclusions.
Mr.. Brodhead would have made very ag-
gEessiye fght in campaign, being popular
in all parts oi the eonnty.
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EVERYBODY should observe in an ap
propriate manner the 30th of May-Decor,
alton Day. 1t brings with it sad memorie:
Of many bloody battle field and prison
house, but it should be enthusiastically
celebrated nevertheless as a means of per
petuating for all time to come the noble
deeds Of Aniefica's great and brave. Cele.
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The Maueh Chunk Democrat can't ex.
actly understand how IL is that the county
commissioners have had the temerlty tc
give the mercantile appraisemeht adver.
tisement TO contemporary for publication
"The mills of the gods grind slowly"
brother Ranch, bat they grind ipst the
aama
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-05-14

THE Allentown Demo- rat is of the opin-
ion that the present legislature being the
strongest Republican that we have had in
anumber of yeats, is also the most jobbiest
We might be pretty far off. but we haven't
noticed much difference at this distance
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-05-14

The high license bill passed the Senate
finally on Wednesday and will in all proba-
bility become law by the signature of
Governor Beaver. This is the first serious
effort in many years to correct the loose
and unsatisfactory license system Of the
State
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-05-14

!. THE new apportionment.m makes Monroe
Pike and Carbon the twenty-second sena
torial district. Well, there is possibility
of electing Democrat in this district al
anv rata
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-05-14

ALL true friends of liberty and sympa-
thizers Of the down-trodden residents of
Ireland earnestly pray that the reports con-
-cerning the fatal illness of Parnell Is only
an exaggerated rnmor
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any rate.

ACCORDING to adYices that come from
sections of the anthracite coal regions, the
companies are working the mines night
and day in anticipation of the much talked
of strike.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-05-14

JUST now leading party papers are trying
to convince each other of the futility of
ever electing James G. Blaine president of
the United States, and the certain defeat
of President Grover Cleveland If re-nomin-
ated. Peculiar country, this.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-05-14

AN exchange asks: 'Shall we have tariff
or no tariff" Well, the Republicans have
about 10000 majority in Pennsylvania, and
il we are to take that as a criterion, we
guess we won't haye it yet awhile.
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AN exchange boldly strikes out for Cleve
land and Carlisle for 1888. 1t is a question
however, whether civil service reform and
whiskey MONOPOLY will mix.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-05-14

CI,EySLkNb's silence on the second
term business might be classed as extem-
potaneous sloquencs.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-05-14

FoR stealing penny New York girl
was confined in the city prison for FIVE
DAYS. We refer the above to the consider
alton Of the Star of New York.
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a sHowER Of sulphur fen st Washington
recsntly-&hat thoughts snch phenome-
oonlelll bring 10 one. ,.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-05-14

- GEORGE DoLAN, q prominent Carbon
county Democrat, of Packerton, Is favor
ably mentioned in coauection with the
county treasurership.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-05-14

THE striking coke workers Of the Con.
neilsyille region win learn, when too late
chat the kind of striking they indulge in
don't pay.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-05-14

IN Philadelphia they want beer and
muSlcOn Sy,ndsys-' Some people are never
satisfied. = -
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-05-14

: IP YOU have trade dollars and wish to
get the full dollar on them, dispose OF them
now after.Juiy it will be too late.
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cEvERY time Patti gives farewell ex-
hiPitiou she makes about four thousand
dollars. At this rate it pays Patti to be
always on the 60.
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Sf1lE national gang is with us, and the
usuSEnTnber Of broken bones win follow.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-05-14

TEE star-eyed goddess of liberty slyly
winks at the dandy bank cashier who stands
Son the beautiful [Canadianl shore"
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Reported up TO 70 o'clock, by DE HAVEN &
IQwNsENp, Bankers. No. 80 ) Third street,
Pnladclphia. Stocks bought and sold either
fOrcash or on margin.
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PnrLADE1PnTA built its tower high, In
order TO keep It out of the mud.
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james Hyatt, of Connecticut has been
appointed Treasurer of tine United States
by President Cleveland. 'A
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THE Carlisle and Hill booms won't boom
so loudly In the sweet subsequently,
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THAT snake story from Pike county will
eee,l appear in metropolitan journals.
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To the coal miners of the anthraclt,
region, greeting; Dc not strike,
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THE man with the barrel generally gets
the biggest boom nowadays.
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fNTEi,FD AT TnE IEHIRHTOr PosTtoFFICE Al
SECOND CLASS MAIL MATTER
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Orphans Court Sale
Or VALUABLE
Real Estate! { !!

By virtue and In pursuance Of an order nfsalc
issued out of the Orphans Court OF Lehlgh. cOul-
ty, there will be sold at public SALE the fbIfoAing
properties, at the Bowmanstown Hotel
Carbon county, Pa, on - ,c- .Tt., pu1y,t
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The Secret Societies.

r o. U. A. NJ, meet Thursday evening" of eaci
w. week in Gabel's,Hall. ALI brothers invited
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z OF L., meet Friday evening e7 each weel
Ia. in Gabels llalh Brothers cordially invited
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LehightOn Business pirectorv

r W. RAUDENBUsH, Bank street, wholosal,
" dealer IN choice brands Of whlslSes,, gin
brandies, wines, &c. az Patronage solicited
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= o. ~ STRAUSS, Malroning street, fresh
IL milk and cream delivered every morning
All kindsof vegetables in season. Low prices
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r 8, KOCH, Bank street, manufacturer OF
IL choice brands of Havana cigars, All kinds
of smokers supplies constantly on hand. Call
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-06-29

Two WOMEN WHIPPED-The knights
of the.Switch;% to the number of twenty,
went to the house OF woman named Mar
tin, in Jefferson township, Ohio, Monday
night, and demanded admittance. Upon
being refused they promptly battered down
the door Two men who were inside made
some show OF resistance and several shots
were exchanged without injury being done
before the knights overpowered the in.
mates. Mrs. Martin and her daughter Lilly
were then dragged from bed, stripped, tied
to the door frame and whipped with hicko-
ry switches until they were unconscious
and their bodies shocking masses of bruises
and bleeding flesh. Mrs. Martin was the
first 20 revive, and was told that il she did
not leave the county within "a hours
she aDG her daughter would be killed. The
men, vino were married farmers living in the
vicinity, were dismissed with the admoni-
ton that if they were again found in house
of iii repute they, too, would be killed. The
knights then rode of.
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INJUNcrToN.-As stated iaesesterday' GAZETTE,
Deborah, Albert F. and Nathaniel D. Powers
obtained an injunction from Judge Lawrence in
New York restraining the Richmond and Dan
vile Railroad Co. and the Central Trust Co. from
paving a dividend of 5 per cent On its stock, or
dered by directors of the company on June y,
pavable on aAd after July / at the Central Trust
Co.'S office, or from paying any money to any per.
son or stockholder from the assets or income OF
the company on account of the dividend.
President Sully, of the Richmond and West
Point Terminal Company, said yesterday in re-
gard to the Richmond and Danville injunction :
The motion for szSipjunction against paying the
dividend on Richmond and Danville stock comes
up for a hearing tomorrow. 1t is brought by a
man holding $4,000 worth of stock, and his in
terest in the matter amounts to only $500. /;
the injunction is granted the company will file Il
bond and 20 ahead paying the dividend
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pcnnsYlYnnia SnaIlc Stories.

Jerry Brady, who works tor John :.
Strickland On his farm near Middletown,
Pa, was narrowing in field ou Friday,
when big black snake came out of a hol.
low stump and made an attack on one OF
the mules Brady was driving. Brady
struck at the snake with his whip, when it
left the mule and started for the driver.
Brady tool; TO his heels, and the snake fol-
lowed him. He stopped at stone heap in
the field, anG turned on the approaching
snake and began stonipg il. He missed it
every time The snake kept right on, and
as il came within yard Of Brady, he
struck al it with his whip. The lash wound
around the snakes neck and fastened
itself there. The snake seemed surprised
at the situation, and turned to get away.
Brady held on to the whip, and succeeded
in laying couple of Dig stones on the rap.
tiles head and dispatched it. 1t was more
than six feet long, and was Of the racer
species During the day Brady killed eight
more of the same kind of serpents, besides
two copperheads. He says it was the best
days narrowing he ever did.
Elias Moser of Lynn township, Lehigh
county, is one of the most trustworthy citi-
zens OF that county. He owns big farm, is
a good Jefiersonian democrat, and q strictly
temperate and pious man. a few days ago,
he says, he was going along the edge OF
piece of woods on his farm when he saw the
mead OF what he supposed was simply
very large specimen of the ordinary black
snake sticking out between the bottom rails
of fence. He up with q stone and tried to
hit the head He missed, striking the rail
above it. The Instant the stone struck,
the head raised up, and the snake it be-
longed 10 began to come out from its hiding
place Farmer Moser backed away, and
section after section of the snake appeared
until the reptile stretched over more than
twelve feet Of the space between the farmer
and the fence and still there was more to
come. Moser had seen enough, and turned
his back or the serpent and started for
home. Alter he had run several rods be
looked back over his shoulder. The snake
was after him and gaining on him, carrying
It's mead high above the ground. Moser
mounted high stone wall that offered its
jumped down behind it on the other side.
The snake glideG up the wall and followed
the farmer. Moser says he knew there was
no use trying TO beat the snake in a foot
race, and so he grabbed a big stone oil the
wall and hurled it at the advancing mon
ster. Luckily the stone nit tho snake just
back of the head and bore it down to the
ground and held it there While the SER
pent twisted and kicked and iashed its i'm
mense length in vain efforts to free itself.
Moser piled more stones OF it, and finally
mashed its head. Then he hurried home
and got his hired man and his gun. When
he came back thus reinforced the snake was
dead 1t was carried to the Moser home,
stead and measured. 1t was 16l feet long.
It had two broad white rings around its
neck and white belly. All the rest of it
pointed and fiat. Local naturalists say it
was king snake, but no serpent Of the
kind was ever seen in those parts before.
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Five Hundred Dollars

is the sum Dr. Pierce offers for the detection
OF any caomel, or other mineral poison or
injurious drug, in his justly celebrated
pheasant Purgative Pellets" They are
about the size of g mustard seed, therefore
easily taken, while their operation is unat-
tended by any gripping pain. Billiousness,
sick headache. bad taste in the mouth, and
jaundice, yield at once before these little
giants.n Of your druggist.
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BRICKS.
ARLINGTON BRICK MACHINE CO.

IOilice No. n Corcoran Building Washington.
Hon. CHAS. M. SHELLY, President.
Yards Canal Lock at Alexandria.
FINE TEMPERED CLAY BRICKS for sale at
the yard or delivered in the city also on railroad
cars and vessels for country and river trade ut
lowest market prices. These Bricks are very
STRONG and DURABLE, being made by power
full machinery and subjected TO enormous pres
sure. We especially recommend them for use in
large structures, railroad tunnels government
strength is required and dampness excluded
ie16 3m
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COrner PTlnCo Auu FAIrIAa s5TCcJ.
Prescriptions speciality. English French,
German and Domestic Toilet Soaps; Genuine
Farina Cologne; Magnolia, Hedycsma, Goranium
and Florida Water Genuine Lubin's Extracts;
Sponges, Hair Brushes and Combs; best English
Tooth Brushes; . full assortment OF Patent Nledi.
cines, Coxc's Gelatinc, Corn Starch Sea Moss Fs-
rine; Spices of all kinds and select stock OF all
articles sold by druggists at prices rs low rs the
same quality can be obtained elsewhere. dec
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EXCURSIONS.
Y. M. G. 4.

FIRST GRAND SELECT MOONLIGHT EX-
EURSION OF THE
YOUNG MEMS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF
ALEXANDRIA,
THURSDAY, JUNE 30h.
On the steamer PILOT BOY.
80 Miles Down the River.
Down the River 80 bfles
The friends of the Y. NJ C. A. are offered most
delightful trip on the water.
PIST0RIO'S BAND has been engaged and vocal
music will be rendered by members of the asso
ciation
Tickets to be had of the members of the Y. NJ
G. A. and al the drug stores.
The boat will leave Reeds wharf promptly at
730 p NJ. Tickets soc. Children under 16. poe
The Ladies' Auxiliary will furnish refresh
ments. ie27 1t
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CORPORATION NOTICES.

NGAYOR'S OFFICE,
Nl ALEXANDRIA, Va, May Il, 1887.
Kilc,y all men By these presents:
That l, John B. Smoot, Mayor of the city of AL
exandria Virginia, by virtue of resolution of the
City Council of said city, passed May 10TH 1887,
do offer REWARD OF FIVE HUNDRED DOL
LARS $500 for the apprehension and conviction
OF the MURDERER Oh MURDERERS OF
POLICEMAN JULIAN ARNOLD, who was shot
and murdered in said city, on the. night of the
14th day of May, 1887.
.JNO B. SM0OT.
Mayor of the City of Alexandria, Va